A first-class relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis is coming to New York in the first week of April.
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi will personally take the relic from Italy to New York City on 3 April.
The relic is a fragment of Acutis’ pericardium, the membrane that surrounds and protects the heart. It will be present for the U.S. bishops’ National Eucharistic Revival campaign, of which the Italian Blessed is a patron.
The relics are physical objects that have a direct association with the saints. Veneration of relics is a Scripture-based tradition practiced in the Church throughout the centuries.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, will offer a Mass with the relic in the Church of St. Rita in the Bronx on 7 April.